Welcome to the Nest, everybody. This is a little mini episode of Best to the Nest where we discuss things that are making our nests, you know, more beautiful, more delicious, more fabulous.

Sometimes we even talk about what it's making our flight out of the nest more pleasant. I'm Elizabeth Reese here with Marjorie Funnett.

Hi, Marjorie is on the phone today because she is in Manhattan, Manhattan, Kansas.

Yes. It's a glamorous land. It's an adorable little college town. I love it. But it's not Manhattan, Manhattan. So you've got to clarify Manhattan, Kansas.

Happily here sitting in the snow. It's beautiful. But I had to take a flight here and elizabeth and i talked about

this how it might be fun to talk about ways to make leaving your nest a little bit easier especially

when you're flying yeah we were talking about traveling on our episode of best to the nest

um the most recent one which you can of course download and it it does i mean this is a part of life

you're in a commuter marriage we We, you know, I'm like finally coming out from under my 19 month old and doing some more traveling. I've got a couple fun trips coming up, which is very exciting. With the kids? No. No. That's good. No. Isn't that great? My husband and I have a trip together coming up.

We've got a couple trips, but we have traveled with the kids, and we like traveling

with the kids.

But you're like a big, you used to be an anxious flyer, so I want to know what things that you

do when you're flying to make your travel out of your nest more pleasant.

You know, it's interesting.

I was very afraid to fly in my 20s and 30s when the kids were little.

And I think now it was connected to wanting to make sure that I was always going to be around for them.

As irrational as that seems like it's flying that's going to make me sort of be frightened that I won't be there

to see them grow up. I think a lot of people feel that way. Yeah, you get little kids and it's like,

yeah, there was always this reckoning. I mean, to the point where I think I've told you the story

before, but to the point where I would make it my mission every time, and I was flying a lot

because in those days, too, I was working freelance and I was traveling a lot. And so to the point where I would honestly have to check out the pilot. Like I'd have to assess, like what's going to happen if they didn't meet my standard? But I did get very good at all of these little tricks about how to make my flight better. the act of moving the act of going somewhere

new i do love to travel it was very exciting it was just the actual plane part that was difficult

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